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Reasons to use Nginx - Seirdy
I generally recommend Caddy over Nginx, but Nginx does still have certain advantages: Nginx supports OpenSSL commands that enable features like TLS record
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I generally recommend Caddy over Nginx, but Nginx does still have certain advantages: Nginx supports OpenSSL commands that enable features like TLS record padding. Performance: better latency and scalability to more connections. Not everyone uses a CDN for static/cached content Kernel-accelerated TLS offload on Linux and FreeBSD Many existing modules provide unique functionality. The many modules for live video streaming and image processing are good examples. An ecosystem of patches with features like HPACK static dictionaries, dynamic TLS record sizing, etce …has terrible language integration. Generally, “language integration” isn’t really a use-case for vanilla Nginx; it’s a use-case for Nginx Unit, an Nginx language-specific module, or OpenResty. I personally prefer the reverse-proxy route since it lets me use whatever language I want regardless of server support: Go, Rust, Python, C, etc. If none of these are that important then I absolutely would not recommend Nginx; Caddy would be the better tool. People aren’t writing internet scale software in lua for a reason. I’d include Itch.io, much of Taobao, and some of the most popular API gateways (including Kong) in the category of “Internet-scale software written by ‘people’”.